A Two-Day Interdisciplinary Conference at the School of Humanities,University of Southampton, UK.

Saturday November 17th-Sunday November 18th, 2007

Contemporary anxieties about terrorism in the mainstream media andpolitics have clearly articulated the war against terrorism and thestruggle for global security to the control of immigration, as well asthe criminalisation of Islam. As A. Sivanandan has argued in a recentarticle, 'the war on asylum and the war on terror [...] have convergedto produce a racism which cannot tell a settler from an immigrant, animmigrant from an asylum speaker, an asylum speaker from a Muslim, aMuslim from a terrorist'. In response to the conflation of discoursesof counter-terrorism, global security and the control of migration, thisconference invites papers from any area of the humanities and the socialsciences that are related to the following topics: